Reply #7: So who's going to do the delivering?

[T.Ruth2power]

Are you opposed to the concept of manual labor?

I'm doing more than defending him. Joe Bageant is one of the most astute honest writers in America right now.

He writes about powerful ideas-- there's no flinching in them, no looking away.. and that unbroken gaze is quite admirable. It's difficult to truly articulate in a way that doesn't meddle or skew or hide. This is what makes me feel sometimes that liberal 'rhetoric' (in the american sense) is somehow an evil thing. It gives people too much freedom to say little and to do so beguilingly. Bageant sees with eyes wide open and that is inspiring-- definitely a voice worth listening for and to.

In short no elitist claptrap coming from him.

Not to mention the American middle class delusion is an ecological wrecking ball. It's okay I do understand how it has come to pass that most people here identify with the ruling class ideas and have there own aspirations of acquisition and see in themselves the status quo.